Answering the call of the tag

I’ve been tagged! Leah and Dominick have written a bit about how participation in tagging can be a fun and effective way for bloggers to network. For more on the positive work done by bloggers, check out my post today for Disaboom (after you’ve read this one of course!). Before my opportunity to answer the call of the blog is lost in the shuffle of the move, I better reply! Here are the rules:

Step #1 - Link to the person who tagged you. That was Dominick! We went to Wright State for a couple years together and our blogger paths crossed a few years later online when we realized that we shared writing and disability in common.

Step #2 - Write Five Fun/Interesting Facts about yourself. This gives fellow bloggers (and your readership) a chance to actually get to know you better.

1. If somehow I could juggle more than the two careers that are up in the air right now, I’d love to receive formal training in design. I’m fascinated by color and can get lost in design sites and blogs for hours.
2. I think grammar is a form of art-not so much the rigid rules of it but the flexibility it allows to be creative and write in a way that isn’t accepted.
3. I like hospitals. I think they’re just as much a place of hope as they are the scene of tragedy. I cherish my experiences as a patient because they will make me a better doctor.
4. I’m finally ready to get back into the pool! My YMCA membership is ready and waiting in Kentucky and I plan to start swimming again in December.
5. Organization amuses me-but sometimes you wouldn’t know it! I remember spending a weekend when I was 12 labeling every last section of my closet. I’ve always taken the search for a perfect planner very seriously and my heart flutters with the chance to browse in the Container Store. I read about and genuinely enjoy the thought of organization, but sometimes it doesn’t carry over to every aspect of my real life!

Step #3 - Tag Six Other People and link to their blogs. Then let them know you’ve tagged them by twittering them or leaving a comment on their blog.

I’m dedicating all my tags to some of my favorite plurk pals. Plurk is a microblogging site where I’ve met some really amazing people with so many different backgrounds, interests, and careers I definitely can’t list them all. Here’s a few:

1. I read banned books.
2. On a Limb with Claudia
3. Tales from the Sunny South
4. Popping Bubbles
5. Susie Scrapper
6. Dot Lizard

Happy Tagging…back to packing.